{"id":17353,"date":"2016-11-28T05:35:37","date_gmt":"2016-11-28T10:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=17353"},"modified":"2016-11-28T07:10:08","modified_gmt":"2016-11-28T12:10:08","slug":"amtraks-vermonter-on-the-stone-arches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/amtraks-vermonter-on-the-stone-arches\/","title":{"rendered":"Amtrak\u2019s Vermonter on the Stone Arches."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I presented a 20-year old \u00a0view of this old Boston &amp; Maine bridge at Bernardston, Massachusetts, made back when the old mill dam and waterfall were still in place.<\/p>\n<p>The loss of the dam and waterfall occurred sometime between late 1996 and 2003, while Amtrak\u2019s <em>Vermonter<\/em> was restored to the line in late 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Two weeks ago, I revisited the bridge with Tim Doherty and Patrick Yough to make this view of Amtrak train 55, the southward <em>Vermonter<\/em>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_17350\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17350\" style=\"width: 1732px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"17350\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/amtraks-vermonter-on-the-stone-arches\/amtrak_vermonter_barnardston_ma_stone_viaduct_dscf8801\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Amtrak_Vermonter_Barnardston_MA_stone_viaduct_DSCF8801.jpg?fit=1732%2C1155\" data-orig-size=\"1732,1155\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;5.6&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;X-T1&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1478875646&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;18&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;200&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.002&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"amtrak_vermonter_barnardston_ma_stone_viaduct_dscf8801\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Exposed using a FujiFilm X-T1 digital camera in November 2016.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Amtrak_Vermonter_Barnardston_MA_stone_viaduct_DSCF8801.jpg?fit=709%2C473\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Amtrak_Vermonter_Barnardston_MA_stone_viaduct_DSCF8801.jpg?fit=474%2C316\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17350\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Amtrak_Vermonter_Barnardston_MA_stone_viaduct_DSCF8801.jpg?resize=474%2C316\" alt=\"Exposed using a FujiFilm X-T1 digital camera in November 2016.\" width=\"474\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Amtrak_Vermonter_Barnardston_MA_stone_viaduct_DSCF8801.jpg?w=1732 1732w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Amtrak_Vermonter_Barnardston_MA_stone_viaduct_DSCF8801.jpg?resize=205%2C137 205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Amtrak_Vermonter_Barnardston_MA_stone_viaduct_DSCF8801.jpg?resize=709%2C473 709w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Amtrak_Vermonter_Barnardston_MA_stone_viaduct_DSCF8801.jpg?resize=1022%2C682 1022w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Amtrak_Vermonter_Barnardston_MA_stone_viaduct_DSCF8801.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Amtrak_Vermonter_Barnardston_MA_stone_viaduct_DSCF8801.jpg?w=1422 1422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17350\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Exposed using a FujiFilm X-T1 digital camera in November 2016.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Tracking the Light post everyday!<\/span><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I presented a 20-year old \u00a0view of this old Boston &amp; Maine bridge at Bernardston, Massachusetts, made back when the old mill dam and waterfall were still in place. The loss of the dam and waterfall occurred sometime between late 1996 and 2003, while Amtrak\u2019s Vermonter was restored to the line in late 2014. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/amtraks-vermonter-on-the-stone-arches\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Amtrak\u2019s Vermonter on the Stone Arches.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[3943,3942,31,3941,1481],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-4vT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17353"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17353"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17357,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17353\/revisions\/17357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}